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| | Steve Winwood Fans' Site: Musician 1988 interview |
 | | By 1964 the (newly abbreviated) Spencer Davis Group and its soul-belting teenage keyboardist had a No. 1 hit in the UK with Jamaican reggae songwriter Jackie Edwards' "Keep on Running," while the next 2 years saw the release of a pair of global top 10 smashes, "Gimme Some Lovin'" and "I'm a Man". |
| | "Lyrically, 'I'm a Man' was the brainchild of New York producer Jimmy Miller, who had a feeling for the American market," says Spencer Davis, "and Jimi Hendrix showed me the E-7th guitar chord on the track. |
| | It's a song about death, and I wrote it with Viv Stanshall [of the Bonzo Dog Band], and it was a reaction to a wave of deaths of great British and West Indian jazz musicians that had gone on, like Graham Bond and Harold McNair. |
| www.winwoodfans.com /articles/musician-88.htm (3666 words) |
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